FYI: LAST SUMMER -- I rode my bicycle ALL around Sri Lanka -- about 2000 kilometres -- up and down the mountains north of Kandy to the Cultural Triangle, and then further north to the lovely remote coastal areas, continuing to Jaffna. I took a train back down to Batticaloa and continued south to Arugam Bay and then rode back up into the highlands to Ella, and then south again to Galle, wow... Such a gorgeous place!
FACT: SRI LANKA is a paradise that makes CAMBODIA look like a dump. I have never seen so many lovely tropical birds, like peacocks running through the fields, several kinds of monkeys and so many hundreds of different varieties of trees and flowers, not to mention the gorgeous tea gardens full of exotic flowering trees, and yet more abundant wildlife living side by side with the people... The biosphere of Sri Lanka has not yet been destroyed so totally as it has in poor Cambodia. Colombo puts on a massive annual book fair in September that makes Cambodia's equivalent look a bit woeful and pathetic. Education in Cambodia has been deliberately hamstrung by the corrupt regime, which prefers to create dummies, not smarties. As you may have noticed. Anyway.
So anyway, back on topic: it is very sad indeed that the religious nuts are at it again. Killing with their bombs. Because Sri Lankans are so much more sophisticated and better educated than most other people in South East Asia. Unfortunately, the politicians are, like the rest of those typical to South and South East Asia -- selfish and power-mad. The bombings happened in consequence of a political tiff between the Prime Minister and the President: the top police became more incompetent and complacent than usual, apparently as a result of having to take sides in the idiotic feud between the two heads of government. I think the President and Prime Minister of Sri Lanka should both resign and call elections...
How unfortunate: that people in power can grow so idle and complacent that building walls instead of bridges becomes their basic modus operandi...
3 churches and 2 hotels bombed in Sri Lanka
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